Step 8: Get back to the controls...

Step 9: The final frontier...

So there you have it, a manly chair. Captain Kirk's chair. Remember, doing the procedure will add at least 12" inches to the width of your existing c...

Red alert, arm photon torpedoes, yes, you can command anything from the seat of your mundane office cubicle by modding your chair to be Captain KirK's command chair from the bridge of the Enterprise. Make a cardboard skin to accessorize your chair. The best part is that you can easily remove it to engage it's cloaking shield so that the boss doesn't see.

For those that want the command chair from a Klingon Bird of Prey, get a life. 1

This instructable is for anyone that dreams of being a starship captain one day, to boldy go where no cardboard has gone before. Aptly named for the Lord of Cardstock, Instructables member gmjhowe. Tweak his shields if you want to ask him about time travel.

1 Only kidding, words from the evil Captain Kirk from episode 37, "The Enemy Within". It's not like anyone wants to make the cockpit chair of the Millenium Falcon. Really.

Please make a log entry below, a channel is open on the subspace standard hailing frequency.

Step 1: Aye, you need stuff...

Okay, I am stuck here on Rigel VII for the summer, really me mum's house, so I had to scavenge some things to make this instructable. I did not have access to to my usual spiffy designer materials so I made this with minimal materials on hand. I even had to raid Caitlin's art supplies to color this thing in.

Materials:

Dilithium Crystals - not really needed here but find some to build the ship.Lithium Rain - not really needed here either but will be around whether you like it or not.

Your old dusty office chair. Hopefully it has a set of armrests. If not, barge into your boss's office and demand to get armrests on your chair and while you are at it, ask for a raise.

Don't worry too much if it is not black leather or is a high-back chair. Once you sit in the finished chair you can stun all the non-believers. The real office chair that the original Captain's chair is modeled after is no longer made and is sought after on Ebay.

helpful if you have them for decorations:label makerLEDs and old-time retro rocker switchesa few floppy disks for memory chip props

Due to time constraints, and inability to go warp 10 to time travel, this version is not electrified for lights and sounds. There is plenty of room to add in these components such as real buttons to activate sound chips and lights. Even hook this up to your house intercom system to talk to Engineering or make a ship-wide announcement.

I would have my self one of those, red is best, not to mention how cool it is :) but alas in our house my children follow star wars, but I am sure gmjhowe will try at some point to educate his neice and nephew in the ways of star trek, I proffer star trek my self, but time will tell on that battle, :)

Ok. I think I'll talk to work about Halloween. I'll dress up like Capaint Kirk, and get some of the other people in my section to dress as various characters as well. Would be a hoot. "Ohura! I think the aliens are trying to communicate, put it through the translator!"

weak i want one that is made out of wood or metal, and has real buttons. and isnt kurks chair a lowback lether chair? if you wanted to do picards chair from TNG you could take a 1990 somthin ford tunderbird front seat and add those armrests and a swivel base and you would be allmost there

If you care to carefully read the text, the premise of this project was to take any ordinary office chair, doesn't matter what type, shape, or form, and add appendages to make it similar to the original Captain Kirk's chair. Yes, the original was based on a 1960's "Madison" lowback leather fixed chair no longer in production.

If you have any understanding of "art", I am capable of building a scale replica of the chair including the entire bridge if needed so I will temper your comment and issue you the challenge to build one and show us.

Good idea, however, on closer inspection, the buttons and switches look like... Well... Sliver gumdrops... Other than that, great Instructable! Maybe you should try to get some real switches and buttons and try to find some floppies (Zip Disks would do in a pinch.)